Comments on: Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean

By: Impossible, by Nancy Werlin » Someone’s Read it Already

Impossible, by Nancy Werlin » Someone’s Read it Already — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:15:39 +0000

[...] of a ballad that, well, generally isn’t retold. I generally like ballad tales — see this for my favorite example — and Ms. Werlin makes a story that absolutely retains the human, [...]

By: The Thirteenth Child (Frontier Magic, book 1), by Patricia C. Wrede » Someone’s Read it Already

Fri, 22 May 2009 02:19:39 +0000

[...] Patricia C. Wrede is one of my auto-buy authors. Based in Minnesota, she’s probably most well-known either for the Sorcery and Cecelia series of YA epistolary Regency-set fantasy novels co-authored with Caroline V. Stevermer, or for the quartet of YA books starting with Dealing with Dragons. Less well-known are her Lyra novels, set in a fantasy world during various eras and containing such obscure titles as Caught in Crystal, The Harp of Imach Thyssel, and The Raven Ring. She has also written two novels set in roughly the same world as the Sorcery and Cecelia books, Mairelon the Magician and Magician’s Ward, neither of which features any of the main characters from the YA series. Another obscure work of hers is Snow White and Rose Red, a contribution to the Fairy Tales series (like Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin). [...]

By: Armageddon Summer, by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville » Someone’s Read it Already

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:38:10 +0000

[...] Tales” series novel, like Tanith Lee’s White as Snow, and Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin. She lives in New England. The first Bruce Coville book I read was My Teacher is an Alien, but the [...]

By: Indigara, by Tanith Lee » Someone’s Read it Already

Indigara, by Tanith Lee » Someone’s Read it Already — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:55:06 +0000

[...] story collections, to an entry in the “Fairy Tales” series (like Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin), to future-set science-fictionish books (The Silver Metal Lover) and books that are more likely [...]